Trump cultists

Fox News reports: Former Attorney General Bill Barr reacted to the indictment of former President Trump over his alleged 2016 hush money scandal on Friday, calling it “an abomination.” Barr appeared on Fox Business to discuss the indictment with host Larry Kudlow. “Obviously, we don’t have the indictment, so there’s a little bit of speculation involved,” Barr began. “But based …

Congress Minutes reports: A phrase coined in the New York courts in the ’80s inspired a GOP stunt today by Rep. Barry Moore, in another Republican show of support to former President Donald Trump following his indictment. After the news of Trump’s indictment broke Thursday, the Alabama Republican claimed that New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg “could indict a ham …

The New York Daily News reports: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been inundated with racist death threats amid his office’s historic indictment of former President Donald Trump, the Daily News has learned. Included in a litany of profane, typo-laden emails sent to Bragg on the heels of Trump’s Thursday indictment were overtly racist and anti-Semitic insults and threats on …

CBS News reports: Anton Lazzaro, a former GOP operative, has been found guilty of sex trafficking underage girls. Lazzaro was charged with seven counts involving “commercial sex acts” with five minors ages 15 and 16 in 2020, when he was 30 years old. Closing arguments wrapped on Friday, and the jury was handed the case shortly before noon. The jury …

From the Justice Department: Douglass Mackey, also known as “Ricky Vaughn,” was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of the charge of Conspiracy Against Rights stemming from his scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote. The verdict followed a one-week trial before United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly. When sentenced, Mackey faces a maximum …

Vice News reports: “This cannot go unpunished,” one member of the rabidly pro-Trump message board The Donald wrote on Thursday night. “The DA needs to pay dearly.” “None of this will stop unless there is blood in the streets,” another poster wrote. On platforms like The Donald, where all five of the top pinned posts on the homepage on Thursday …

The Insider reports: Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says he’s got a plan to keep former President Donald Trump from being prosecuted after being indicted by a grand jury in Manhattan on Thursday — assaulting a police officer and engaging in robbery. “How can President Trump avoid prosecution in New York?,” asked Graham on Twitter. “On the way …

The Washington Post reports: The office of New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday urged House Republicans to withdraw a demand for information on its case against Trump, again rebuffing what it characterized as “unlawful political interference” in an ongoing criminal case. In a letter to the three committee chairmen who are pressing for documents and testimony about …

“When he shows up, if it’s on Tuesday, which I have heard, that mugshot will become iconic. Like Frank Sinatra mugshot iconic, like printed on t-shirts, put it on dorm room posters, this is a symbol of what someone who fights for our country is put through. “It’ll be probably the most iconic mugshot we have in our country, and …

The Hill reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson said the indictment of former president Trump by a New York grand jury on Thursday was a bigger assault on the American system of government than the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by the former president’s supporters. “If you believe in our system and you want it to continue, …

Media Matters has the transcript: MARK LEVIN: This is a party that is out of control. Their DAs are out of control. Alvin Bragg should be disbarred. Rather than wringing our hands, let’s take some action. The DA in Atlanta, she needs to be disbarred. The guy that is running the investigation in Washington, D.C. — His family is bloated …

The Daily Beast reports: An upset Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) gave an impassioned plea to Fox News viewers Thursday that indicted former President Donald Trump needs their money, and he needs it right now. Graham, historically one of Trump’s most talkative defenders in the Senate, once more gave a performance that is sure to keep him in Trump’s good graces. …

“We’ve had parents called domestic terrorists, right? We have had imprisonment of nonviolent people from January 6. Trump’s being indicted. Basically, it’s one party hunting another. “The thing is, they just made this guy bigger than politics. He is officially going to be a folk hero. He’s a political — he’s going to be a political prisoner, being prosecuted over …

“It’s the stupidest thing I have ever seen. And I feel bad for the guy. He didn’t even really have to be president. He had a lot of money. He had a great life. And he decided to run. “He won, he got in. They took him down, and now they’re trying to nickel-and-dime him for a private agreement he …

Florida Politics reports: The bombing of a Kabul airport during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 drew instant condemnation. Now a Florida Congressman is suggesting Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin should be impeached as a consequence. U.S. Rep. Cory Mills, a Winter Park Republican, drafted the impeachment papers. At a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Mills presented the papers to …

NBC News reports: A former Boston Police K-9 officer was arrested on Thursday and charged with attacking a Capitol Police officer with a chair during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Joseph Fisher was arrested Thursday morning. He faces felony charges of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers. One video, …

The New York Post reports: The “QAnon Shaman” — known for storming the US Capitol shirtless in a horned coyote-fur headdress — was released from prison 14 months early and moved to a halfway house, prison officials said Thursday. Jacob Chansley, 35, who became the notorious poster boy of the Jan. 6 riot, had been sentenced to 3 1/2 years …

The Daily Beast reports: Before he was a military policy aide to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Derrick Miller was court-martialed and convicted of murdering an Afghan civilian in 2010, The Intercept reported on Wednesday. Miller, a former U.S. Army National Guard sergeant, was on a combat mission in Afghanistan when he shot the 27-year-old victim in the head during an …

Mediaite reports: Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, wrote to Fox News CEO Suzanna Scott on Jan. 20, 2021 that he believed outgoing President Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was stolen was “pretty much a crime” that led directly to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “The more I think about McConnell’s remarks or complaint …

Florida Politics reports: Following extended scrutiny over his sex life, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz said he appreciates those publicly defending him. He’s now asking for love the way politicians often do, by soliciting political contributions. The Fort Walton Beach Republican is urging supporters to give to his principal campaign committee, Friends of Matt Gaetz. He said donations to the campaign …